The Western Learning Spread Of Timothy Richard

The mission of the missionary is to transmit the Christianity. But these educated missionaries all have spontaneously or self-consciously played the important role of introducing or transmitting Chinese and western culture when they carried out their historic missions. They bring the western religion culture to china as well as advanced western technological and cultural knowledge, which urge the communication of Chinese and western culture. In the ideological emancipation and cultural communication of late Qing Dynasty, emerged in a number of well-known missionary. Timothy Richard was one of the famous missionaries. Being a missionary, scholar and politician, he relieved the people in disaster; published the paper; established the school; and translated many western books; and made friends with influential Chinese officials. He presided Guang Xue Hui, which published more than ten papers, over two thousand books, which included Wan Guo Gong Bao during the period of twenty-five years. It became one of the largest publishing units. The advanced ideology was noted and approbated by the enlightened intellectuals through these publications, also supported by many officials. Especially, the books which beat the drum for political reform, have made great influence on Reform Movement of 1898. Timothy Richard established the Shanxi University which brought in and transmitted more early the advanced western technology and science thinking in prior, which enkindled the fires of the modern scientific civilization in China and have impacted on modern education system reform and the construction of the new school system.The thesis commence in-depth discussion through analysis which Timothy Richard's transformation from transmitting the Christianity to Western learning's propaganda and the social practice in these thinkings. And expound the influence which the diffusion of Timothy Richard's western learning lead to Chinese society at that time.